Where the Eye Alights: Phrases for the Forty Days of Lent
By: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
4.42
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Lent is about more than going to church on weekdays and giving up chocolate or social media. It’s a…
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1. The Book of Speculation
By: Erika Swyler
4.15
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who is sent a mysterious old book, i… read more
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2. Till We Have Faces
By: C.S. Lewis
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more
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3. Pauses for Lent: 40 Words for 40 Days
By: Trevor Hudson , Joanna Bradley
3.97
Format: 176 pages,
In this beautifully minimalist book, Trevor Hudson focuses on 40 single words one for each day of t… read more
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4. Orthodoxy
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4.27
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more
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"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
6. The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
By: Ian Morgan Cron , Suzanne Stabile
4.21
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Ignorance is bliss except in self-awareness... What you don't know about yourself can hurt you a… read more
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"The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion for people just as they are, not the people we wish they would become so our lives would become easier."-Ian Morgan Cron, The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
7. The Selfless Way of Christ: Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen , Robert Ellsberg
4.04
Format: 226 pages,
In this short work Henri Nouwen offers a penetrating reflection on the challenge of the spiritual l… read more
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8. The Word in the Wilderness
By: Holly Ordway , Malcolm Guite
4.04
Format: None pages,
For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favou… read more
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9. Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year
By: Malcolm Guite
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is increasingly used in wors… read more
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10. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
11. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By: Bono
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more
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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
12. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
By: Beth Moore
4.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more
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"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
13. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- faith
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14. The Four Loves
By: C.S. Lewis
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human lov… read more
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
15. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
16. The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)
By: Tana French
3.85
Format: 541 pages, Paperback
A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Det… read more
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"Above the front door the fanlight glowed blue, delicate as wing-bones."-Tana French, The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)
"The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart."-Tana French, The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)
"Lixa sempre as expectativas das pessoas, companheiro. Faz bem à circulação."-Tana French, The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)
"I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty."-Tana French, The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)
17. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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18. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more
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"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
19. Advent: The Season of Hope (Fullness of Time)
By: Tish Harrison Warren
4.52
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
"Christians believe not just in one coming of Christ, but in three." We tend to think of Advent as … read more
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20. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
By: Esau McCaulley
4.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more
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"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
21. Heaven and Nature Sing: 25 Advent Reflections to Bring Joy to the World
By: Hannah Anderson
4.60
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“Joy to the world—the Lord has come!” We sing these words every year, but what does it mean that th… read more
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"Yes, the manger signals something about this baby, but it is not simply his poverty. By being placed in the manger, he is revealed as both the rightful son of Adam charged with caring for his creatio…"-Hannah Anderson, Heaven and Nature Sing: 25 Advent Reflections to Bring Joy to the World
22. The Tobacco Wives
By: Adele Myers
3.81
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
For the audience of Fiona Davis and Lisa Wingate, a vibrant historical debut set in 1946 North Caro… read more
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23. Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
"Lent is inescapably about repenting." Every year, the church invites us into a season of repentanc… read more
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"We hope that as Christians we mature and grow and become more and more like Christ. But the church and its wisdom assumes we will fail even after our baptism. The church presumes that life is long an…"-Esau McCaulley, Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal
24. Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.56
Format: None pages, Audiobook
What happens when Paul Simon, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in music history, a… read more
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25. A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message
By: Winn Collier
4.65
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This essential authorized biography of Eugene Peterson offers unique insights into the experiences … read more
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26. The Only Woman in the Room
By: Marie Benedict
3.86
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
She was beautiful. She was a genius. Could the world handle both? A novel about Hedy Lamarr. Hed… read more
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27. Pentecost: A Day of Power for All People (Fullness of Time)
By: Emilio Álvarez
3.74
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"The power of Pentecost is inseparable from the good news of the Christ who is proclaimed in the Go… read more
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28. On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.36
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowled… read more
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"Pride is always a way of not seeing oneself properly, whereas humility is"self-knowledge perfected."-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
"What does it mean to practice faith well? While our works cannot save us, our habits can strengthen our faith."-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
"Seeing who we really are--which requires seeing ourselves in relationship to God--is true humility. Humility is taking our place, no matter how small (or big), and fulfilling that place with a heart …"-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
"Humility is not, therefore, simply a low regard for oneself; rather, it is a proper view of oneself that is low in comparison to God and in recognition of our own fallenness. "Humility is thinking le…"-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
29. Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found
By: Mike Cosper
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
In the years since leaving local church ministry, I've devoted an enormous amount of time and resou… read more
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30. Turning of Days: Lessons from Nature, Season, and Spirit
By: Hannah Anderson
4.68
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Return to creation. Encounter the Creator. From the beginning, Scripture tells of a God who crea… read more
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31. Where the Eye Alights: Phrases for the Forty Days of Lent
By: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
4.42
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Lent is about more than going to church on weekdays and giving up chocolate or social media. It’s a… read more
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